www.pinterest.com Is a wonderful resource for your students to research cultural topics and other material related to learning a language. Having an account means you can create themed visual pinboards that contain live links to material found on the web or images from your computer or mobile device. Use it as a teacher collecting resources for your class or have students collate material for their study.
An easy way to collate web-based information as a digital reading list.
Useful as the teacher sharing resources with students or as students collating resources for study.
Here is an example you can view online at http://readlists.com/2e7ebd98/ if you are viewing it on an iPad or iPhone you can also download it as an epub or ebook from the menu on the left (if you have the iBooks app installed first)
Blogging
Many schools find blogging a great way to motivate students to write in the target language. With the uptake of mobile devices in schools and BYOD programs blogging is an authentic writing and publishing task that encourages students to think about their writing an presentation and also to edit their work so that the real world audience will be impressed.
There are a number of popular blogging sites with educators. These are our favourites
Allows you to set up an individual blog or a class blog with linked student blogs
students and colleagues can be invited to contribute to your blog without an account by posting to your blog via email. When you do this the subject of your email becomes the title of the blog post and the body text and image attachments become the body text of the blogpost.
Try it here....
Step 1: email this address with a short message about a tip you use for teaching language to your students rebe577zifa@post.wordpress.com
Using online tools for professional support and collaboration....Tools for student feedback and questioning
Today's Meet (Backchanneling (for student use)http://todaysmeet.com
Tools for brainstorming and building the field
Tag Galaxyhttp://taggalaxy.de/
Bubbl.us
https://bubbl.us/
Tools for developing speaking and listening skills
Soundcloudhttp://soundcloud.com/
Fotobabble
http://www.fotobabble.com/
Tools for vocabulary/script building
Quizlethttp://quizlet.com/
Tour of Quizlet.com from Phil Freo on Vimeo.
**Socrative** Online quiz maker with lots of functions, teacher and student interface and also apps
Kahoots Online quiz maker with a variety of functions
Tools for online sharing
Google Collaborate with students and teachers with the Google suite of excellent resources.Tools to use with Youtube
To edit Youtube clips
TubechopTo convert and save Youtube clips
Zamzar
To set activities with Youtube clips
Educanon Set questions and activities to make videos more interactive
Edpuzzle Set questions and activities to make videos more interactive
To add text to Youtube
Amara - add your captions and subtitles to Youtube clips.
To make interactive Youtube videos
The Knewton Blog
Youtube Editor and Help Edit your videos in Youtube.
Tools to organise yourself online
SitehooverOur students
Digital nativesPinterest
www.pinterest.comIs a wonderful resource for your students to research cultural topics and other material related to learning a language. Having an account means you can create themed visual pinboards that contain live links to material found on the web or images from your computer or mobile device. Use it as a teacher collecting resources for your class or have students collate material for their study.
Here is an example board used in AIS NSW languages courses
http://www.pinterest.com/melaniehmelanie/languages-mobile-learning/
Readability
https://www.readability.com/Readlists
http://readlists.com/ (a project by Readability)Here is an example you can view online at http://readlists.com/2e7ebd98/ if you are viewing it on an iPad or iPhone you can also download it as an epub or ebook from the menu on the left (if you have the iBooks app installed first)
Blogging
Many schools find blogging a great way to motivate students to write in the target language. With the uptake of mobile devices in schools and BYOD programs blogging is an authentic writing and publishing task that encourages students to think about their writing an presentation and also to edit their work so that the real world audience will be impressed.There are a number of popular blogging sites with educators. These are our favourites
Blogger
Weebly
http://education.weebly.com/
Wordpress
https://wordpress.com/
Try it here....
Step 1: email this address with a short message about a tip you use for teaching language to your students
rebe577zifa@post.wordpress.com
Your blogpost will be published to the AISLanguages2014 blog here http://aislanguages2014.wordpress.com/